forepaw
IPA: fˈɔrpɔ
noun
- Either of the paws of an animal's foreleg, homologous to the hand in humans.
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Examples of "forepaw" in Sentences
- She tried to force the forepaw inside—but too stiff.
- He morphed to cat shape, pulled his forepaw free, and ran.
- Within moments, all that was visible was his head, one forepaw, and a wing.
- The furcot merely bunked, yawned, and started preening itself with a forepaw.
- He squirmed and struggled, dabbing at the air with the injured as well as the uninjured forepaw and increasing his pain.
- "Close Home," Ruumahum muttered that evening, pausing to send a thick curving tongue out to groom the back of a forepaw.
- A sudden swipe of her short, powerful forepaw stretched an opening in the wire, and her head darted in and her jaws snapped through the back of a sleeping hen so swiftly it barely had a chance to squawk.
- She dropped down again to all fours, and with her nose sought out one who had tumbled a little further and was beginning to overcome his bewilderment and to test his new environment with a forepaw, and nosed him back with the others and pushed them all to the back of the cave, their little furry bodies huddled tight against one another.
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